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Since stepping down from office, no Japanese prime minister has lasted longer than a year and none in the last two decades had such a reverberating impact on the Japanese political scene. How did Koizumi break the mould? Why was he able to deliver strong leadership and make significant reforms?
Apr 16, 2021 · In office for five years and five months, Koizumi is known for bringing about a major shift in the management of Japan's government, from Liberal Democratic Party factional...
Prime Minister Koizumi succeeded in strengthening the prime minister’s role in the LDP’s policymaking, although he largely failed to undercut traditional bureaucratic strength.
Sep 14, 2006 · The man who remade Japan. But now Junichiro Koizumi is stepping down. Sep 14th 2006 | tokyo. AP. THE 64-year-old who retires as Japan's prime minister on September 30th has earned a reputation...
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has dispatched his loyal followers into the provinces of Japan to crush once and for all the postwar dominance of the Japanese bureaucracy.
He alone appeared galvanized by the party's plummeting popularity and was the most outspoken in calling for change within the party. Koizumi put forward his sense of crisis simply and straightfor wardly: in his sound-bites, he was the man who was going to "Change the LDP, change Japan."
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Jan 1, 2012 · Uchiyama’s primary objective is to explain why Koizumi had such a major impact on Japanese politics and policy by analyzing his leadership style, the nature of his accomplishments, his place...
